Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Black Rain (Kuroi Ame) (1989)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Yoshiko Tanaka, Katzuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara
- Alarming, mournful insider's view of post–nuclear devastation that focuses on a surviving family that have been contaminated by the fallout of…
Blackadder Goes Forth (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Richard Boden
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson
- Final official series, set on the Western Front 1917. Six episodes contained on a single DVD or two tape volumes: 'Captain Cook', 'Corporal…
Blaze (1989)
- Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Richard Jenkins
- Paul Newman plays flamboyant Southern governor Earl Long, who was scandalized over a love affair with an exotic dancer (Lolita Davidovich, in a…
Blind Fury (1989)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Rutger Hauer
- A nice comic turn for Rutger Hauer as a blind cane–wielding tough guy in this martial arts parody.
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
- Dir. Howard Brookner
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Julie Hagerty…
- An American Playhouse adaptation of four Damon Runyon tales which intersect on New Year's Eve 1928 in a milieu of jazz–age hedonism. A good…
Booker (TV Series) (1989-1990)
- Feat. Carmen Argenziano
- Good value spin–off series from 21 JUMP STREET, with Richard Grieco from the original series taking on the role of a rebellious private…
Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Tom Cruise
- Tom Cruise gives an exhilarating performance as Ron Kovic, the teenage patriot who became an embittered, paralysed Vietnam vet, to finally emerge as…
Boys from the Blackstuff (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Bernard Hill
- Alan Bleasdale's series of plays vividly encapsulates the bleaker side of life in Thatcher's Liverpool.
Beginning with the feature–length…
Brain Dead (1989)
- Dir. Adam Simon
Feat. Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort
- Long unreleased in New Zealand (which possibly explains why Peter Jackson also claimed the title), this arrives a bit of a lost gem from the halcyon…
Brotherhood Of The Rose (Mini-Series) (1989)
- Feat. Robert Mitchum, David Morse, Peter Strauss…
- Mini–series from author David Morrell about two orphans raised to be super–soldier CIA operatives who become embroiled in an…